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100	1		_aBerlage, Eva, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aNoun phrase complexity in English / _cEva Berlage, University of Hamburg.
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2014.
300			_a1 online resource (xxi, 276 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
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337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aStudies in English language
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
505	0		_a1. Introduction; 2. The variationist framework; 3. Methodology I: defining the syntactic complexity of NPs; 4. Methodology II: modes of data presentation, statistical procedures and electronic corpora; 5. Optional verb phrases in topic-restricting as far as constructions; 6. Word order variation involving the collocations take prisoner, hold prisoner and take hostage, hold hostage; 7. Word-order variation involving pre- and postposed notwithstanding; 8. Infinitival variation following help; 9. NP-complexity and change; 10. Conclusion and future directions.
520			_aThis book explores noun phrase complexity in English, showing that it is best accounted for both by a linear and a hierarchical parameter: its length and its type of postmodifier(s). The study is methodologically unique in that it combines univariate and multivariate analyses in an investigation of four different syntactic variables. Drawing on more than three billion words of British and American data, Eva Berlage shows that the length and the structure of the NPs, along with language-external factors such as the regional variety of English, work as powerful determinants of the variation. On a theoretical level, the book reveals that the structural complexity of NPs cannot be sufficiently captured by (phrasal) node counts but that we need to incorporate the degree to which NPs are sentential. The book is designed for researchers and students interested in syntax, language variation, sociolinguistics, structural complexity and the history of English.
650		0	_aEnglish language _xNoun phrase.
650		0	_aEnglish language _xSyntax.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9781107015128
830		0	_aStudies in English language.
856	4	0	_uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139057684
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